Biome-BGC is a process-based biogeochemical model that can be used to simulate carbon, nitrogen and water fluxes of different terrestrial ecosystems. A new version of the model, called Biome-BGC MuSo was developed to perform more realistic simulations in terms of soil hydrology, and improved ecosystem management options essentially (Hidy et al. 2012; Hidy & Barcza 2014). The Biome-BGC CARBON service executes a single simulation run at a given geographic location under that distinctive environ...

Biome-BGC is a process-based biogeochemical model that can be used to simulate carbon, nitrogen and water fluxes of different terrestrial ecosystems. Two models have been implemented: the Biome-BGC v4.1.1 Max Planck Institute model, and the newly developed Biome-BGC MuSo 3.0 model. Performance, success or failure of these models are highly dependent on parameter settings and variation. Due to the high number of parameters (around 40 and 60 for 4.1.1 MPI and MuSo respectively) and the non-line...